AI
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#1115: Can Your AI Negotiate a Volume Discount?
Discover how AI is evolving from simple chat to autonomous B2B procurement agents capable of negotiating and executing million-dollar deals.
#1113: The Ghost Company: The High Cost of AI Agent Bureaucracy
Can a company run entirely on AI? Explore the hidden costs and "agentic bureaucracy" of building autonomous agent hierarchies.
#1112: Inside the Neural Cathedral: Cracking the AI Black Box
Peek inside the "black box" of AI to discover how models use high-dimensional geometry and superposition to organize complex human concepts.
#1111: The Architecture of Intelligence: Beyond the Transformer
Discover the unsung research papers that built the AI era and learn how to navigate the relentless flood of new machine learning breakthroughs.
#1110: The arXiv Effect: Inside the Engine of AI Research
Explore how a 1990s-style website became the central nervous system for AI breakthroughs and the power of the preprint revolution.
#1109: The T-FLOP Trap: Measuring the Power of Modern AI
Are teraflops the "horsepower" of AI, or just a marketing gimmick? Explore why raw compute speed isn't the whole story in the race for AI power.
#1108: Beyond the Emoji: How Hugging Face Conquered AI
Discover how a quirky chatbot company became the central nervous system of AI, hosting millions of models and standardizing the entire industry.
#1106: The Entropy Budget: Embracing AI Zaniness
Corn and Herman explore how to inject "zaniness" and entropy into their show without losing their educational edge.
#1103: LLM Context Windows and the Great Kitchen War
Explore the mechanics of LLM context windows and attention, and witness what happens when technical debates collide with household chores.
#1100: The Truth Conflict: Why AI Ignores the Facts You Give It
Discover why AI models ignore provided documents in favor of old training data and how to build a reliable "hierarchy of truth" for RAG systems.
#1099: Digital Recalls: Why Your AI Is Losing Its Edge
Is your AI getting lazier? Explore the "digital recall" and why the world’s most advanced models are secretly taking steps backward.
#1098: The Agentic Symphony: Orchestrating Enterprise AI
Stop building AI silos. Discover the 14-layer framework that turns isolated models into a cohesive, connected enterprise ecosystem.
#1097: Inside the Neural Cathedral: Decoding AI’s Hidden Logic
We build massive AI models, but do we know how they think? Explore the "black box" and the new tech finally cracking it open.
#1088: Why AI Can Read a Library but Only Write a Postcard
Discover why frontier AI models can process millions of words but struggle to write more than a few pages without losing their logical thread.
#1086: Why AI Can’t Stop Talking About Second Order Effects
Ever wonder why AI sounds like a senior consultant? Explore the "second order effects" of training data and reward model drift.
#1085: The Tokenization Lie: How AI Actually Processes Media
Think 1,000 tokens equals 750 words? For audio and video, that rule is a lie. Discover the hidden math behind multimodal AI.
#1084: Why AI Models Can’t Read and Your Bill Is Rising
Why does the same prompt cost more on different models? Discover the "invisible wall" of tokenization and how it shapes AI perception.
#1083: Mapping the Second Black Box: Agentic AI Visualization
Stop reading messy logs. Discover how mapping "internal momentum" and latent value spaces can solve the black box problem in agentic AI.
#1081: The K-V Cache: Solving AI’s Invisible Memory Tax
Why does your AI get slower as you chat? Discover the K-V cache, the invisible bottleneck of generative AI, and how we're fixing it in 2026.
#1080: Beyond the Prompt: Mapping the Future of Claude Opus
Explore the engineering roadmap from Claude 4.6 to 5.0 as AI evolves from a simple chatbot into a fully autonomous cognitive partner.
#1078: The Agentic Throughput Gap: Why Your AI Hits a Wall
Stop hitting 429 errors. We explore why AI agents crash into rate limits and how to build high-throughput systems that never sleep.
#1077: Will Your Browser Replace Your OS for Local AI?
See how Web GPU and Web NN are turning your browser into a local AI engine, ending the era of complex DIY setups and protecting your privacy.
#1076: The Agentic Friction: Solving the MCP Restart Tax
Why do we have to restart AI sessions just to add a tool? We dive into the "restart tax" and the future of Dynamic Tool Discovery.
#1073: Beyond YAML: Building the Agentic Smart Home
Stop wrestling with YAML. Discover how MCP and local AI agents are transforming Home Assistant into a truly intelligent, aware partner.
#1072: Why Your Smart AI Agent Still Lives in a Dumb Chat Box
Why are we controlling the world's most advanced AI with simple chat boxes? Explore the technical debt and future of agent-native interfaces.